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Textual Features | Jean Plaidy | JP
's tone is darker here: she portrays Henry as a tyrant and the various power-hungry and quarrelling families (the Seymours and the Howards) as self-serving weaklings. She does not paint Katherine (as in her... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Sewell | The story is of a young girl's development and close relationship with her mother. A High Anglican
message is important here, as it was to be in all of ES
's work. |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | In The Fatal Three the mostly loveless childhood of Mildred, the daughter of a frivolous society woman, is brightened only by the brief sojourn in her household of a woman presumed to be her illegitimate... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | In 1869, the year that Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland
, she exclaims, Oh, noble face marked deep with inward strife! / Oh, steadfast eyes, through which thy soul looks out! In this first... |
Textual Features | Monica Furlong | MF
's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican
, Roman Catholic |
Textual Features | Ada Cambridge | For the wife of an Anglican
clergyman, the content was certainly unexpected. Indeed, as A. G. Stephens
has noted: The shock to the Rev. George Cross
[her husband] was overwhelming. Beilby, Raymond, and Cecil Hadgraft. Ada Cambridge, Tasma and Rosa Praed. Oxford University Press. 6 Vickery, Ann. “A ’Lonely Crossing’: Approaching Nineteenth- Century Australian Women’s Poetry”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 40 , No. 1, pp. 33-54. 40.1 (Spring 2002): 41 |
Textual Features | Elinor James | This work (fuller title Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England, In An Answer to a Pamphlet Entituled, A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty) summarises and defends her career so... |
Textual Features | Elinor James | This is her defence of the High-Church preacher Henry Sacheverell
, who had got into trouble with a flagrantly Jacobite sermon preached on 5 November 1709. James calls him a Church of England
angel in... |
Textual Features | Jane Johnson | She writes of women's virtues as domestic ones, and the family as the proper province for private women to shine in. Whyman likens her letters, in their aim and scope, to those of Richardson
... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Gaskell | Like the earlier Mary Barton, North and South was set in a manufacturing district, in Manchester rechristened Milton. However, North and South focuses on the alliance between the gentry and the emergent industrial middle... |
Textual Features | Frances Trollope | FT
was a strong believer in established religion, and as she had frowned upon English practices antithetical to the Church of England
, so too she found American religious pluralism unsettling. In one anecdote, she... |
Textual Features | Evelyn Underhill | Like Practical Mysticism, this small volume attempts to synthesize religious experience and everyday life, but EU
is not here concerned primarily with mysticism. She is instead interested in describing what she finds to be... |
Residence | Marie Belloc Lowndes | In late 1939, about seven weeks after the declaration of war, MBL
and her husband moved out of 9 Barton Street in central London to the suburban address of 28 Crooked Billet, near Wimbledon Common... |
Residence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
had always been deeply interested in India, where her father and many other relatives had built their careers. No less than five of the family were there at the time of the Mutiny.... |
Residence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | At his point in her life, her close relatives having either died or grown up, CMT
felt that she had no further family responsibilities and was free to devote herself to missionary work in India... |
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